EPA Proposes Rule Change on Mercury Emissions

The EPA proposal would change the calculation the federal government uses in its cost-benefit analysis of the Obama-era regulation on mercury emissions from coal plants to dollars while ignoring or minimizing health benefits. . . .

The agency proposed “to determine that it is not ‘appropriate and necessary’ to regulate HAP (hazardous air pollutant) emissions from power plants under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act.”